Optical system for color photography



Aug. 16, 1932.. v P Rr-:HLNDER 1,872,501 4 i l OPTICAL SYSTEM Fon coLoR PHOTOGRAPH y' Filed Nv. 19. 1930 Inventor:

, ,ggd/@2f :i l 1 I Mmc] 'Patentes Aug'. '16, 1932 'UNITED-I STATES PArrNn i oFFICE PAUL'REHINDEmoF BERLIN-CHARLOTTENBG, annimmt OPTICAL srsrm; ron. Conorl raoroenarnv Application iiled November 19, 1930, S'erial No. 495,804,` and in Germany November 19.1929.

Thisinvention relates to the photographic color process, which 'is known as the Berthon process. In this process natural colors` will be obtained, when exactly the same optical system is usedin taking and in reproducing. When the takin and the reproducing optic is not exactly t e vsaine the color'in the reproduced image is falsified in a great many points. 4 l0 C. W. Frederick in his Patents Nos. 1,685,- f 600 and 1,749,278. has given optical ways to avoid this fault. r i

My invention gives a new way to get natu` ral color in all points of the reproduced image, in case -that the Berthon process is per-t fected byl minute cylindrical lenses on v4the back of the photographiciilm andthe dorresponding color-diaphragm in the objectives.

I take a system of prisms, the reiecting edges of which are arallel to the direction lof the minute cylin rical lenses. This stem of prisms is placed as near as possi le to the surface of the minute cylindrical lenses of the photographic ilm. The angle of in- `v clination to the plane of the lm layer is greaterat the extreme edges of the 4image than in the middle of it. The riiectingf planes of these sms are more inclined to the plane of the Dilm layer at the sides ofthe 3Q image than in the middle of it.

I can'also take instead of this system of prisms a cylindrical lens, which may be viewed as a union of a great many prisms.

C. W. Frederick took a spherical lens Afor this purpose (Patent No. 1,749,278, Fig: l and Fig. 3, L). This sphericallens is, 1n the case of minute cylindrical lenses, a correcting'A means not .only for thefault effected` by the minute cylindri al lenses in Vthe direction 4 perpendicular to he axis of these lenses, but

also inthe direction parallel to this axis'. But in this latter direction the minute cylindrical lenses do not at all deteriorate the image and therefore the correction ofthe spherical lens is in' the direction parallel to thevaxis of the ture.

L. A .minute cylindrical 'denses a surpluscorrection, i. e. a deterioration of the image.-

Fig. 1 'is a section through the lenticular 1 ilm with one'form of my correcting unit.

Figs. 2 tok 4'are similar sections of other 60 ormsof thenventiona v Fig.' 5 isa section throgh a sliding frame carrying correcting lenses of different curva- Fig. 6 is a plan view of the frame of Fig.'.5. Il

In Figs. 1, 2, 3 and 4 a is the film support with the minute cylindrical lenses b; c is the panchromatic emulsion. In Figs..1 and 3 'd are the prismsl the reflecting edges -ofA which are parallel to the axis of the minute cylindrical lenses. The reflecting lanes of the prisms lare more inclined to the layer at the sides of the image than in the middle of it. In Figsi 2 and 4 d are'the cylindrical lenses; the central axis of the-minute cylindrical lenses, on the surface of the film and the central axis' of the cylindrical lenses d in Fig. 2 and Fig. 4 are parallel.A Furthermore I take a-sliding frame with fseveral cylindrical lenses of different focus,` X

so th t the projectionist in the cinema theater and the copylng man in the process of taking a copy. can easily find the lens, which correctsbestthe false colore. In Fig. 5 and Fig. G Ais the frame and B1, B2, B3, B4, are the lenses of different radius of. curvature. Instead of these lenses I can take the systems of prisms described above@ I .l This frame is applicable for thep'rojectlon in the cinema theaters and' also in the process -by which photographical copies'are gained 'o the image rstly taken from the nature.

Wherever in the claims I makefuse of the -g ferm'mlens I wish to include any optical element, so constructed that the refracting angle-increases or decreases from its Acentral line toits edges.

Having. thus described my invention, I

claim as new and desire to have secured by Letters Patent: I

1. In the Berthon process with numerous minute cylindrical lenses the placing of a Til cylindrical lens in a fixed distance of the objective and as near the. minute cylindrical lenses of the film as mechanically possible, the central axis of this cylindrical lens being A parallel to the central axis of the minute cylindrical lenses of the lm.

' 2. In the Berthon process with numerous minute cylindrical lenses the placing of a sliding frame with several lenses of different focus as described inthe claim 1. In testimony whereof I afix my signature.

PAUL REHINDER. 

